Welcome to theassessment department of WikiProject Big Brother! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Big Brother articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with theWP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the{{Big Brother project}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories ofCategory:Big Brother articles by quality andCategory:Big Brother articles by importance.
| Big Brother articles by quality and importance | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 FL | 3 | 3 | |||||
 GA | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |||
| B | 4 | 21 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 39 | |
| C | 5 | 87 | 57 | 28 | 7 | 184 | |
| Start | 19 | 106 | 121 | 72 | 24 | 342 | |
| Stub | 10 | 52 | 23 | 18 | 7 | 110 | |
| List | 1 | 13 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 44 | 75 |
| Category | 83 | 83 | |||||
| Disambig | 39 | 39 | |||||
| File | 271 | 271 | |||||
| Project | 29 | 29 | |||||
| Redirect | 3 | 7 | 3 | 96 | 109 | ||
| Template | 31 | 31 | |||||
| Other | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Assessed | 39 | 284 | 225 | 139 | 551 | 85 | 1,323 |
| Unassessed | 1 | 1 | 12 | 14 | |||
| Total | 39 | 285 | 225 | 140 | 551 | 97 | 1,337 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω =3,227 | Ω = 4.75 | |||||
The categories have been used to generate statistics on the number of articles in each class. The table is udated automatically by a bot, so please do not edit it.
If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on theWikiProject talk page.
An article's assessment is generated from theclass andimportance parameters in the{{Big Brother project}} project banner on its talk page:
The following values may be used for theclass parameter:
FA (adds articles toCategory:FA-Class Big Brother articles)FL (adds articles toCategory:FL-Class Big Brother articles)
GA (adds articles toCategory:GA-Class Big Brother articles)Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed inCategory:Unassessed Big Brother articles. The class should be assigned according to thequality scale below.
The following values may be used for theimportance parameter:
The parameter is not used if an article's class is set toNA, and may be omitted in those cases. The importance should be assigned according to theimportance scale below.
| Class | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FA | The article has attainedfeatured article status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers fromWP:Featured article candidates. More detailed criteria The article meets thefeatured article criteria: Afeatured article exemplifies Wikipedia's very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. In addition to meeting thepolicies regarding content for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes.
| Professional, outstanding, and thorough; a definitive source for encyclopedic information. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | Cleopatra (as of June 2018) |
| FL | The article has attainedfeatured list status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers fromWP:Featured list candidates. More detailed criteria The article meets thefeatured list criteria:
| Professional standard; it comprehensively covers the defined scope, usually providing a complete set of items, and has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about those items. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | List of Big Brother (U.S.) HouseGuests |
 A | The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been examined by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class. More detailed criteria The article meets theA-Class criteria: Provides a well-written, clear and complete description of the topic, as described inWikipedia:Article development. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, appropriately structured, and be well referenced by a broad array of reliable sources. It should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. Only minor style issues and other details need to be addressed before submission as afeatured article candidate. See the A-Class assessment departments of some of the larger WikiProjects (e.g.WikiProject Military history). | Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject would typically find nothing wanting. | Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style problems may need solving.WP:Peer review may help. | Battle of Nam River (as of June 2014) |
| GA | The article meetsall of thegood article criteria, and has been examined by one or more impartial reviewers fromWP:Good article nominations. More detailed criteria Agood article is:
| Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (though not necessarily equalling) the quality of a professional publication. | Some editing by subject and style experts is helpful; comparison with an existingfeatured article on a similar topic may highlight areas where content is weak or missing. | Big Brother 2009 (UK) Big Brother 11 (U.S.) |
| B | The article meetsall of theB-Class criteria. It is mostly complete and does not have major problems, but requires some further work to reachgood article standards. More detailed criteria
| Readers are not left wanting, although the content may not be complete enough to satisfy a serious student or researcher. | A few aspects of content and style need to be addressed. Expert knowledge may be needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with theManual of Style and relatedstyle guidelines. | Big Brother 10 (U.S.) |
| C | The article is substantial but is still missing important content or contains irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant problems or require substantialcleanup. More detailed criteria The article cites more than one reliable source and is better developed in style, structure, and quality than Start-Class, but it fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements, or need editing for clarity, balance, or flow. | Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study. | Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and solvecleanup problems. | Big Brother 3 (U.S.) |
| Start | An article that is developing but still quite incomplete. It may or may not cite adequate reliable sources. More detailed criteria The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas. The article has one or more of the following:
| Provides some meaningful content, but most readers will need more. | Providing references toreliable sources should come first; the article also needs substantial improvement in content and organisation. Improve the grammar, spelling, and writing style; decrease the use of jargon. | Celebrity Big Brother Australia |
| Stub | A very basic description of the topic. Meets none of the Start-Class criteria. | Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. Readers probably see insufficiently developed features of the topic and may not see how the features of the topic are significant. | Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. The best solution for a Stub-class Article to step up to a Start-class Article is to add in referenced reasons of why the topic is significant. | Bree Amer |
| List | Meets the criteria of astand-alone list orset index article, which is an article that contains primarily a list, usually consisting of links to articles in a particular subject area. | There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader. | Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized. | List of Big Brother (UK) housemates |
| Future | A topic about which details are subject to change often. More detailed criteria The article covers a future topic of which no broadcast version exists so far and all information is subject to change when new information arises from reliable sources. With multiple reliable sources, there might be information that contradicts other information in the same or other articles. Not all future categories will be rated with "Future" and may be rated like normal. | Amount of meaningful content varies over time as the projected event draws near. | Material added might be speculation and should be carefully sourced. | Big Brother 14 (U.S.) (As of April 2012) |
| Category | Anycategory falls under this class. | Categories are mainly used to group together articles within a particular subject area. | Large categories may need to be split into one or more subcategories. Be wary of articles that have been miscategorized. | Category:Software |
| Disambig | Anydisambiguation page falls under this class. | The page serves to distinguish multiple articles that share the same (or similar) title. | Additions should be made as new articles of that name are created. Pay close attention to the proper naming of such pages, as they often do not need "(disambiguation)" appended to the title. | Big Brother 2008 |
| Template | Anytemplate falls under this class. The most common types of templates includeinfoboxes andnavboxes. | Different types of templates serve different purposes. Infoboxes provide easy access to key pieces of information about the subject. Navboxes are for the purpose of grouping together related subjects into an easily accessible format, to assist the user in navigating between articles. | Infoboxes are typically placed at the upper right of an article, while navboxes normally go across the very bottom of a page. Beware of too many different templates, as well as templates that give either too little, too much, or too specialized information. | Template:Pinoy Big Brother |
| NA | Any non-article page that fits no other classification. | The page contains no article content. | Look out for misclassified articles. Currently, many NA-class articles may need to be re-classified. | Big Brother 10 USA logo |
Articles should be rated on the importance scale based on their notability as specified in the 'Notability' column. If this is unclear then the 'Examples' column also gives a general guide on what the importance of an article should be, but bear in mind that articles with exceptionally high or low notabiliy may be classified into a different class depending on this notability.
The criteria used for rating article importance arenot meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of theaverage reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, articles with greaterpopular notability may be rated higher than articles which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to people of a certain geographical area.
When interpreting the examples column, as a rule of thumb, articles should be classified into the class below whatever article could be considered their 'parent article'. If an article could be classified under two different classes (e.g.Bree Amer was both a contestant and Big Brother presenter) then the higher class should be used.
Note that general notability need not be from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the country or region in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to a Western audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.
| Status | Template | Notability | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| Top | {{Top-Class}} | Article is extremely important, even crucial, to its specific field. Reserved for articles that have achieved international notability within its subject or field. | The main article for Big Brother worldwide Country-specific articles |
| High | {{High-Class}} | Article is extremely notable, but has not achieved international notability, or is only notable within a particular continent. | Articles relating to Big Brother worldwide Articles relating to Big Brother in a certain country, e.g. presenters and spin-off shows Series-specific articles |
| Mid | {{Mid-Class}} | Article is only notable within its particular field or subject and has achieved notability in a particular place or area. | Articles relating to a series of Big Brother Big Brother housemates, unless they also come under High class. |
| Low | {{Low-Class}} | Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within its field of study. It may only be included to cover a specific part of a notable article. | Any articles split from or relating to Mid-Class articles |
| ??? | None | This article is of unknown notability. | This article is of unknown importance to this project. It has not yet been rated. If you want to lend a hand, feel free to browse the completelisting of unassessed articles. |
To assess an article, paste one of the following onto the article's talk page.
Quality
Importance
